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Staff Data Engineer, Tech Foundations

Airbnb · San Francisco, CA · On-site

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About Airbnb

Get an Airbnb for every kind of trip → 8 million vacation rentals → 2 million Guest Favorites → 220+ countries and regions worldwide. Backed by General Catalyst, Greylock and Kleiner Perkins.

About the role

You will join a team that values thoughtful architecture, engineering rigor, and operational ownership. We collaborate with engineering, product, analytics, finance, and business teams to turn complex requirements into dependable, reusable data assets. We welcome strong engineers who are curious about the business and eager to solve problems across diverse domains. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Lead the architecture, implementation, and operation of high-impact data pipelines across AI usage and cost, Unit Economics, enterprise applications, and critical Financial metrics
  • Partner with stakeholders to define how AI adoption, consumption, and spending are measured across the organization, and build consistent data models that support those definitions
  • Evolve Unit Economics datasets to connect revenue and diverse cost drivers, enabling teams to understand product profitability and resource efficiency
  • Build reliable ingestion and transformation pipelines for non-platform systems such as Jira and other BizTech enterprise applications
  • Translate ambiguous requirements into clear source contracts, reusable fact and dimension models, and technical designs
  • Develop configurable pipelines and shared components that simplify onboarding new data sources, products, and business requirements
More about this role

Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way.

Staff Data Engineer, Enterprise Core Datasets, Tech Foundations

At Airbnb, trustworthy data powers business decisions, product innovation, and operational efficiency. The Enterprise Core Datasets team builds the technical data foundations that help Airbnb understand how the business operates, where resources are invested, and how new technologies create value.

Our scope spans high-impact datasets across the organization: measuring AI adoption, usage, and cost; understanding revenue, costs, and profitability through Unit Economics; integrating non-platform data from Jira and other enterprise applications; and powering critical company metrics such as Gross Booking Value and Revenue.

You will join a team that values thoughtful architecture, engineering rigor, and operational ownership. We collaborate with engineering, product,...

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